[dolphin] [Bug 452273] New full-row highlight effect makes some tasks more difficult

[Iyán Méndez Veiga]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452273

--- Comment #2 from Iyán Méndez Veiga <me at iyanmv.com> ---
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> > For example, now it is not possible to deselect everything by clicking anywhere in the empty space.
> > I think the only option now it to use the keyboard. I can imagine some users that work mostly with 
> > the mouse annoyed by this change.
> In fact we tried our best to specifically handle this case, and there is
> some whitespace to the left of the icons that you can click on. It's not as
> large as the whole white area of the view, but it is still there. This area
> can be used for dragging files too. However for the drag use case, it is
> quite small indeed, and I can see how it's now difficult to drag something
> into the currently-viewed folder, rather than one of its child folders.

Oh, that's right! I only realize that now. So I guess we can agree it's not
very intuitive. Although now after you told me this I'm annoyed by the "empty"
space on the left and I don't know how I didn't see it before hahaha

> I wonder if we should allow drags into the empty area of the folder as we
> used to, to try to improve that use case It seems like a legitimate
> usability regression.

Is the discussion open in gitlab? If so, can you share me the link. Maybe I can
put there a few screenshot/videos with the issues I identified after this
change.

Thanks,
Iyán

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